2.6.8 stock kernel bug

From: Haines Brown (brownh_at_teufel.hartford-hwp.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:24:04 GMT

I've been exploring the problem that I can't mount my IDE cdrom
drive (sarge with kernel 2.6.8-1-386). Apparently, the kernel does not
load the driver, even though it's a stock kernel.

I now have looked at bugs for kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 and find the
following comment:

> The kernel doesn't detect the CD-ROM drives automatically, which
> forces you to hack around.
>
> The problem is that by default, the initrd loads the ata_piix
> module, which detects ide0 bus correctly as SATA, but for some
> reason missdetects the normal ATA ide1 bus, and when later
> ide-generic is loaded, it fails to find the CDROMS.
>
> This is the output after a normal boot, with ata_piix loaded before
> ide-generic.
>
> ...
>
> Making the initrd load ide-generic before the rest fixes this issue
> for us, but I don't know if that has implications in other setups.
>
> After this issue is worked around, the install finishes without
> further problems, but of course you have to recreate the inird in
> the newly installed Debian system or the same problem gets reroduced
> with the Debian kernel.

Apparently recompiling the kernel is not the solution.

How do I implement this hack? How do I get ide-generic to load first?

This discussion is concerning the installer, but my system is already
up and running. Is the implication that I must recompile my initrd
such that ide-generic is loaded first? 

-- 
      Haines Brown

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